Non-refillable bottle.



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(No Model.)

UNITED STATES lPATENT OFFICE.

JOHN VANDER BEUGLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS TO JOSEPH MANHEIMER AND CHARLES A. WIMPFHEIMER,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 71 1,692, dated October 21, 1902. Application iiled April 23, 1901. Serial No. 57,139. (No model.)

T0v all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOHN VANDER BEUGLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a simple inexpensive device and means for securing it in the neck of a bottle which will permit the .contents of a bottle to be freely and readily emptied, but which will effectually prevent the bottle from being refilled, so that the bottle cannot be offered a second time as an original package.

The invention consists in the novel 0011-' struction and combination of the .several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Referenceis to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar lcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure 1 is a vertical section, considerably enlarged, of my device in place in a bottleneck. Fig. 2 isa face view of the outer end t plate or end piece of the rotating cylinder. Fig. 3 is a face view of the tixed disk immediately below the cylinder. Fig. 4: is a face View of the fixed disk below the valve-disk. Fig. 5 is a face View of the sliding .valve-disk. Fig. 6 is a side View of the operating parts of my device removed from their inclosing shell. Figs. 7 and 8 are modications of the means for holding the device in position in the bot-l tie-neck.

A represents the neck of a bottle, in which an ordinary cork B may be used. The neck of the bottle is usually providedwith diametrically opposite openings 10, which openings receive pins 11, and these pins extend into a ring or band 12, which iits -snugly to the inner face of the neck of the bottle at a point below the cork, and this ring or band 12 is adapted tofprevent the device to be hereinafter described from being drawn out from the bottle. The pins 11 are preferably concealed by an exterior collar 13, screwed or otherwise band 12.

` wardly-exten'ding stud or post stantially in the axis of the bottle-neck, circu attached to the neck of the bottle over the openings 10 and pins 11.

The device proper consists'of a cylindrical shell 14, which shell may be held in the neck of the bottle by frictional contact or by positive means, as described later, and the upper end of the shell is preferably made to engage with the under face of the retaining ring -or A disk 15 is horizontally secured in the shell 14 at or near the bottom of the shell,the shell itself being open at both top and bottom. This disk is held in place by frictional'contact of its periphery with the inner face of the shell or by suitable securing means.

The disk 15 is provided with a central up- 16, lying sublar in cross-section Where it passes through the disk 15, but becoming polygonal in cross-section immediately outside the disk. lts lower end is riveted down onthe disk or secured in any other suitable way.A (See Fig. 1.) In the disk 15 are provided openings 1 7, one at each side of the post or stud, the openings being diametrically opposite and of circular form. ln connection with this `fixed disk 15 an upper or valve disk 18 is employed. Thisvalve-disk is of slightly less diameter thanthe disk 15 and is free to slide YinV the shell 14C and is guided in its movement by the post or stud 16, which passes through a central polygonal opening 1,9 in the valve-disk, as shown in Fig. 1. The valve-disk is perforated with two diametrically oppositeopenings 20,'also` usually of circular form, butwhen the valve-disk is vin position in the shell the openings 2O are out of registry with the openings 17 in the xeddisk 15. The disk 15 serves as the seat of the valve-disk 18. When the valve-disk 18 is in its lower position, las shown in Fig. 1, it lies against and overthe openings in the fixed disk 15 and effectually closes the same. To

valve-disk 18 the stud 16 is polygonal in crosssection. Beyond this point it once more becomes circular in cross-section and continues so toits upper end. Secured at the lower part of this circular portion of the stud 16 is the xed disk 25, being provided with a suitable number of openings 26 through its face, such that when the valve-disk 18 lies against the disk 25 one or more of the openings 26 will always register with the openings 20 of the valve-disk. The fixed disk 25 is of substantially the same diameter as the disk 15 and contacts frietionally with or is secured to the inclosing shell 14. Axially pivoted on the circular portion of the stud 16 just beyond the xed disk 25 is a hollow cylinder 27 of peculiar construction serving as a support for the flap-valve, to be later described. The cylinder 27 is of slightly less diameter than the disk 25, so that it is enabled to rotate freely within the shell 14. It is composed of two end pieces 28 29, spaced apart and each provided through a portion of its face with a convenient number of openings 31 32, preferably four. Over the periphery of the end piecesis drawn the cylindrical shell 30, forming the outer periphery of the cylinder. The end pieces are so adjusted that their openings shall be in line with each other, thus forming,in eiect,openings extending through the cylinder parallel with its axis. Within the cylinder on the side opposite the region Containing the openings is placed a suitable weight 33, so as to bring the center of gravity of the cylinder outside of or eccentric to the axial point of support. As the cylinder can r0- tate freely, it thus occurs that whenever the studlG is placed ho1izontally--as,for instance, when a bottle is placed on its side-the weight within the cylinder causes the same to rotate, thereby assuming a position in which the openings are at the upper portion of the cylinder or above the axis. By reason of the number of openings 26 in the disk 25 the cylinder-openings always register with some of the openings 26. Hinged to the outer face or end piece 28 of the rotating cylinder and coacting with the openings therein is a swinging dooror Hap-valve 34, the point of attachment being opposite the weight in the cylinder, so that the door will swing down against the end piece 28 whenever the cylinder assumes a position with its weight 33 below its axis. The door may be aided in so closing by a weight 36, applied near its edge opposite its hinge, in case its own weightis not sufficient to cause it toclose. The rotating cylinder is secured on the cylindrical portion of the stud 16 bya nut outside the face 28, and the door 34 is provided with a raised portion or recess 35 to receive the nut, and thus permit the door to close tightly on the openings 31. Vithin the shell 14, but suhciently beyond the door 34 to permit the same to open as far as desired, is the perforated disk 23, secured in any des ired manner, as by a bead 37, spun over the edgeof the disk.

This partition prevents the `in the fixed disk 15, through the openings 20 of the valve-disk and openings 26 of the fixed disk 25, and -into the hollow cylinder. Passing through this the liquid will press on the outwardly-swinging door 34 and open the same in case the bottle has not been inclined beyond the horizontal. Of course when the bottle is inclined beyond a horizontal the door 34 opens of itself.' Passing beyond the door 34, the liquid ilows through the perforated partition 23 to the mouth of the bottle and is discharged therefrom. As soon as the bottle is returned to a horizontal position the door 34 will close. If an attempt is made to force liquid into the bottle,ias by submerging the bottle on its side in the liquid, the door 34 will close and prevent thevpassage 0f liquid, and if pressure is exerted the valve 18 will also seat itself.

Fig. 7 shows a modification of the means for holding the shell 14in position in the bottle-neck. The ring 12 is dispensediwith. The shell 14 is provided with holes registering with the pins 11 and is locatedy as toits upper portion in the space formerly occupiedV by the ring 12, so that the pins pass directly intothe openings of the shell 14 and secure it inplace. As with the means of Fig. 1, the pins in turn are retained in position by the superposed screw-threaded ring 13.

Fig. 8 shows another modification of the means for holding the shell 14 in position in the bottle-neck. In this case the bottle-neck is blown with an outwardly-extending bead just above the point of location of the upper edge of the shell 14. After insertion ofthe device into the bottle-neck a split spring-ring 12 is inserted into the bottle neck and snapped into the bead, the ring 12 being of sufficient thickness to project inwardly over the upper edge of the shell 14, which is thus secured against displacement or withdrawal.

I do not limit myself in the device above described to the specific relativelocationof the iiap-valve and sliding valve, as I may place the flap-valve below the sliding valve.

Having described my invention, what` I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a non-refillable bottle, arotatable support axially pivoted within the bottle-neck, a iiap-valve hinged to the said support, said support being weighted opposite the point of attachment of theiiap-valve, whereby in horizontal position of the bottle the flap-valve is caused to assume a position with its hinge uppermost, substantially as described.

2. In a non-reflllable bottle, a rotatable cylinder axially pivoted within the bottle-neck, openings through the said cylinder parallel IOO IIO

with its axis, a flap-valve hinged to the said cylinder and coacting with the said openings,

, and a Weight carried by said cylinder oppoas described.

4. In a non-rellable bottle, a rotatable support axially pivoted Within the bottle-neck and eccentrically Weighted, a flap valve hinged to the said support, and a perforated disk located beyond the path of movement of the flap-Valve, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 19th day of April, 1901.

JoHN` VANDER BEUGLE,

Witnesses:

G. A. TAYLOR, THEODORE T. DORMAN. 

